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Library of Arabic Literature

  • A Hundred and One Nights

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    Bruce Fudge (translation) Paperback, 272 pages English-only edition 9781479873234   Translated into English for the very first time, A Hundred and ...

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  • A Physician on the Nile

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    Abd al-Latif al-BaghdadiTim Mackintosh-Smith (translation)Paperback, 288 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479820078 A Description of Egypt and Journal ...

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  • A Treasury of Virtues PB

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    al-Qadi al-Quda'i Tahera Qutbuddin (translation) Paperback, 196 pages English-only edition 9781479896530   A Treasury of Virtues is a collection of...

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  • Accounts of China and India

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    Abu Zayd al-SirafiTim Mackintosh-Smith (translation)Paperback, 124 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479830596   The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed...

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  • Arabian Romantic: Poems on Bedouin Life and Love

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    ʿAbdallāh ibn SbayyilMarcel Kurpershoek (translation)Paperback, 328 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479804405   Scenes from Arabian life at the turn o...

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  • Arabian Satire: Poetry from 18th-Century Najd

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    Hmedan al-Shewe'irMarcel Kurpershoek (translation)Paperback, 206 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479885169   Satirical verse on society and its hypocr...

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  • Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded Vol. One

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    Yusuf al-ShirbiniHumphrey Davies (translation)Paperback, 320 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479840212   Satires of rural society in Ottoman Egypt   W...

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  • Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded Vol. Two

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    Yusuf al-Shirbini and Muhammad ibn Mahfuz al-SanhuriHumphrey Davies (translation)Paperback, 380 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479829668   Satires of...

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  • Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology

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    Geert Jan van GelderPaperback, 496 pages9780814738269   A major translation achievement, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Ara...

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  • Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad PB

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    Ibn al-Sa'iPaperback, 176 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479866793   Accounts of remarkable women at the world's most powerful court   Consorts of th...

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  • Epistle on Legal Theory: Al-Shafii's Risalah

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    Joseph E. Lowry (tr.) Paperback, 368 pages English-only edition 9781479855445   The Risalah is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal th...

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  • Expeditions: An Early Biography Of Muhammad ﷺ

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    Mamar Ibn Rashid Sean W. Anthony (translation) Paperback, 320 pages English-only edition 9781479816828   Kitab al-Maghazi, Parallel English-Arabic ...

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  • Impostures

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    Al-HaririMichael Cooperson (translation)Paperback, 542 pages9781479810567   Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award   Fifty rogue’s tales translated f...

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  • In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People

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    Muhammad al-TunisiHumphrey Davies (translation)Paperback, 430 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479804443   A merchant’s remarkable travel account of an...

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  • Kalilah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice

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    Ibn al-MuqaffaʿMichael Fishbein, James E. Montgomery (translation)Hardback, 300 pagesBilingual Arabic-English edition9781479806539   Timeless fable...

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  • Kalilah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice PB

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    Ibn al-MuqaffaMichael Fishbein and James E. Montgomery (translation)Paperback, 293 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479825776   Timeless fables of loya...

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  • Light in the Heavens: Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. PB

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    al-Qadi al-Qudai Tahera Qutbuddin (translation)Paperback, 192 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479864485   The words of Prophet Muhammadﷺ, Messenger of...

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  • Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition

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    al-Mayidi ibn Zahir Marcel Kurpershoek (translation)Hardback, 400 pagesBilingual Arabic-English edition9781479806577   Poems and tales of a literar...

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  • Mission to the Volga

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    Ahmad Ibn Fadlan James E. Montgomery (translation)Paperback, 108 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479899890   The earliest surviving instance of sustai...

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  • Principles of Sufism Al-Bauniyyah

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    Aishah al-Bauniyyah Hardback 9780814745281   Arabic-English 

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  • Risible Rhymes

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    Muhammad ibn Mahfuz al-SanhuriHumphrey Davies (translation)Hardback, 128 pagesBilingual Arabic-English edition9781479877928   Written in mid-sevent...

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  • Scents and Flavors: A Syrian Cookbook

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    Charles Perry (translator) Paperback, 242 pages English-only edition 9781479800810   This popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to w...

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  • Stories of Piety and Prayer: Deliverance Follows Adversity

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    al-Muhassin ibn 'Ali al-Tanukhi Julia Bray (translation) Hardback, 320 pages Bilingual Arabic-English edition 9781479855964   Al-Faraj baʿd al-shid...

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  • The Book of Charlatans

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    Jamal al-Din Abd al-Rahim al-Jawbari Humphrey Davies (translation) Paperback, 320 pages English-only edition 9781479813247   Uncovering the profess...

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